Am Mittwoch, den 11.03.2009, 11:08 +0100 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: > Matt Taggart <tagg...@debian.org> writes: > > >> Well this assumption (to encrypt the disc afterward) is not necessarily > >> valid. A company is giving away computers to a school or for use for > >> children, where no encryption is needed. They require you to wipe the > >> drive. (Ok, they should do it themselves to be on the safe side of > >> things, but in reality things are different.) > > > > BTW something like "Dan's Boot and Nuke" is an option for this case too. > > But like I said in a previous mail it would be convenient if d-i could do > > this as I usually have d-i disks laying around :) > > Switch to the second console. > > cat </dev/null >/dev/sda > > Go get lunch.
Well that is not sufficient. Doing this the date can still be reconstructed. > >> If such a udeb exists and the additional option is too much work, could > >> you please point me to a howto where the handling of udeb-files is > >> described, so I can unpack it manually. > > > > BTW, not a udeb but I did publish instructions on how to use shred > > > > http://lackof.org/taggart/hacking/d-i-tricks/#shred Thanks, Paul
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